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The article focuses on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's strategic approach during her debate with Donald Trump, leveraging the TV format to her advantage, which includes Harris's efforts to manipulate the debate dynamics to highlight Trump's weaknesses.

The article reports that in Illinois one James T. Hodgkinson's foster daughters killed herself by dousing herself with gasoline and setting herself on fire.

The article reports that a man in his 70s set himself on fire in front of the Japanese Embassy in South Korea amid rising escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea over the Tokyo, Japan's move to impose trade restrictions.

The article discusses the self-immolation of L.G.B.T. rights lawyer and environmentalist David Bucknel in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York on April 1, 2018, including in regard to his concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's policy on environmental protection and climate change.

The article reports on Tunisian vendor's immolation echoes growing desperation and the views of Nadia Ben Slama, a psychologist at the Ben Arous hospital, on self-immolation.

The article reports on an Iranian refugee who was tragically died from self-immolation during a protest against immigration policy in Australia.

The article reports on the death of the 18-year-old Tibetan monk Kalsang Wangdu on February 29, 2016 after self-immolation or setting himself on fire as a protest of Chinese rule.

This section offers world news briefs as of July 1, 2015 including a deliberate act of self-immolation by 71-year-old Haruo Hayashizaki aboard a high-speed train in Japan, gunning of student Malakhi Rosenfeld by Palestinian gunmen and Cuba's receipt of a World Health Organization certification for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and syphilis.

The article offers 2014 world news briefs including death of leader Abdelmalek Gouri in Algeria, millitant attacks in the northeastern villages of India, and self-immolation by a Tibetan woman named Tsepe Kyi in China against Chinese rule.

The article reports that a man has set himself on fire in front of the Shinjuku train station in Tokyo, Japan in protest against Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to weaken the antiwar Constitution of the country.

Corrections to previous articles are presented including the call of the Dalai Lama for an outside inquiry on the self-immolation of Tibetans in the May 10, 2014 issue, a review on the recital by pianist Emanuel Ax in the May 19 issue and the real estate bubble in Turkey in the May 21 issue.

The author reflects on the self-immolation of Tibetans which reaches to a total of 123 from 2009 through November 2013 caused by the repressive Chinese policies since China took over in Tibet in 1950.

The article focuses on the report by Tibetan exile groups and U.S.-funded news service Radio Free Asia which states the death of a 41-year old Tibetan man named Shichung on September 28, 2013 after a self-immolation protest against Chinese policies in the western Sichuan Province, China.

This section offers world news briefs as of March 26, 2013, including a plan by Malaysian authorities to resettle residents of coastal areas near the southern Philippines, the signing of a defense deal by the U.S. military and South Korea, and the death of a Tibetan mother who set herself on fire to protest Chinese rule.

The article reports on the arrest of five Tibetans by security officials in Gansu, China who accused them of inciting self-immolations in late 2012, which is part of the government's efforts to end suicidal protests through intimidation.

The article reports on the self-immolation in Tibet which has reached to 100 in the death of 37-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk Lobsang Namgyal who killed himself through self-burning to protest the Chinese rule in China.

The article reports on the efforts of Chinese authorities in battling self-immolation and mentions the arrest of 12 people and detention of dozens who were guilty of such acts.

The article reports on the self-immolations approach of ninety-nine Tibetans, who burned themselves to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, China.

Photographs depicting events happened from March to April 2012 are presented including the recruits for the Afghan Public Protection Force, Jampa Yeshi, a Tibetan exile, set himself on fire at a rally in New Delhi, India, and the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

Beijing AROUND noon on Feb. 19, an 18-year-old named Nangdrol set himself on fire near the Zamthang Monastery in the northeast Tibetan town of Barma. In a note left behind, he wrote, ''I am going to set myself on fire for the benefit of all Tibetans.'' Referring to China's ethnic Han majority as ''devils,'' he added, ''It is impossible to live under their evil law, impossible to bear this torture that leaves no scars.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the detention by Chinese police officers of a 40-year-old Tibetan monk named Lorang Konchok and his nephew, Lorang Tsering who were accused of participating in a series of self-immolations. It says that Konchok and Tsering were suspected of disclosing information regarding the identities and backgrounds of Tibetans to exiles in India. Moreover, the two men were detained in Sichuan Province, China in August 2012.

The article reports on the suicide of a Tibetan monk named Lobsang Gedun in Western China to protest against Chinese rule.

The article reports on the self-immolations going on in Tibet, China and the reactions of Chinese intellectuals to such event. It mentions that gruesome act of resistance has been common in the country for several months in 2012, which include the setting in fire of six young Tibetans in an appeal for freedom. however, it says that Chinese intellectuals including Chinese political philosopher Zhang Boshu are silent about the Tibetans.

The article focuses on the reports of Free Tibet and Radio Free Asia regarding the four Tibetans who set themselves on fire on November 7, 2012 in protest against the ruling of China in Tibetan areas.

The article reports on the confirmation made by activist group Free Tibet that 24-year-old Lhamo Tseten burned himself to death, the fourth self-immolation this week in an area that Tibetans call Sangchu County in China.

The article reports that the police in China are offering rewards for leads on those orchestrating the self-immolations to protest against Chinese rules.

The article reports that Tibetan activist groups have reported self-immolation against Beijing officials in China.

The article reports that a Tibetan man died after he set himself on fire in protest against the Chinese rule in Tibet, China on October 22, 2012.

Vietnamese authorities said Friday that they were investigating the self-immolation of the mother of a prominent blogger who is in police custody awaiting trial on charges of creating propaganda against the state. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Luong Thanh Nghi, said in a statement on Friday that the blogger's mother, Dang Thi Kim Lieng, set herself on fire Monday and died on the way to a hospital. Ms. Lieng's daughter, Ta Phong Tan, is a former police officer who wrote a blog that addressed social justice issues. She was arrested in September. She and two other bloggers are awaiting trial on accusations that they wrote hundreds of articles that ''distorted and opposed'' government policies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JERUSALEM -- Moshe Silman, the desperately indebted Haifa man who set himself aflame last weekend as part of a social justice protest in Tel Aviv, died Friday from the second- and third-degree burns over 94 percent of his body. In the year since 400,000 people filled Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard last summer, setting off a national protest movement, Mr. Silman, 57, had become a fixture of demonstrations in Haifa. His self-immolation stunned but also galvanized the protest movement, which had been struggling to find its footing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A teenage Tibetan monk in Sichuan Province died Tuesday after setting himself on fire in what has become an increasingly familiar protest against harsh government policies in the region, exile groups said. The monk, Lobsang Lozin, 18, from the Gyalrong Tsodun Kirti Monastery in Ngaba, an autonomous Tibetan prefecture, died around noon, shortly after igniting his fuel-soaked garments near the monastery. Witnesses quoted by the Tibetan government in exile said he shouted slogans before he collapsed. It was the 44th self-immolation since the suicidal protests began in 2009. In March, two monks from the same monastery died after setting themselves on fire. The Chinese news media did not immediately report Tuesday's death, but in the past it has portrayed the spate of self-immolations as acts of terrorism orchestrated by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. He has denied the accusations, saying that protesters are motivated by a widely held belief that government policies in the region restrict religious practices and are a threat to Tibetan culture and language. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TEL AVIV -- As doctors struggled on Monday to save the life of Moshe Silman, an Israeli man who set himself on fire at a protest for social justice in this Mediterranean city two days earlier, a grim mood had already replaced the mostly blithe atmosphere that characterized Israel's popular movement for social change last summer. While activists said Mr. Silman's desperate act reaffirmed the relevancy of a grass-roots struggle that had seemed to be floundering, they appeared traumatized as they searched for an appropriate response. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Tibetan man in his 20s set himself on fire in a village near Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, according to reports by Radio Free Asia and Free Tibet, an advocacy group. The self-immolation took place on Saturday and was the 43rd self-immolation since 2009 in protest of Chinese rule in a Tibetan area, the Radio Free Asia report said. The condition of the man was unclear. Free Tibet said he was Tsewang Dorjee, 22, a nomad. Radio Free Asia, citing a person from Lhasa, said the self-immolation took place in an area that Tibetans call Damshung, and the Chinese call Dangxiong. The Chinese government has denounced the self-immolations as the work of separatists. In May, two men self-immolated in Lhasa in front of the Jokhang, the holiest temple of Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese government generally does not allow foreigners, including foreign journalists, to travel independently to Lhasa or other parts of central Tibet. Many areas in eastern Tibet, the region where most of the self-immolations have taken place, are now also closed to foreigners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two Tibetans set themselves on fire on Wednesday to protest Chinese rule and to call for the return of the exiled Dalai Lama, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. The Tibetans were identified as Tenzin Khedup, 24, a former monk, and Ngawang Norphel, 22. The self-immolations occurred in the Yushu Prefecture of Qinghai, a Chinese province that is traditionally the northeastern Tibetan area of Amdo. The burnings occurred in the town of Dzatoe, known in Chinese as Zaduo. The report, which cited a monk in India who came from the Yushu area, said that Tenzin Khedup died at the scene and that Ngawang Norphel was badly burned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Tibetan herder in China's northwest Qinghai Province died Friday after setting himself on fire to protest government policies in the region, according to exile groups and Radio Free Asia. The herder, Tamdin Thar, thought to be in his early 60s, set himself on fire in Markethang, in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, said the group Free Tibet. Since 2009, at least 39 Tibetans have set themselves on fire. Of those, 30 have died, according to the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group in Washington. ''If the human rights situation doesn't improve, such tragic incidents will keep happening,'' said Tsering Woeser, a Tibetan writer in Beijing. ''Many Tibetans think the pain of self-immolation is nothing compared to the pain of living without religious freedom.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED BEIJING -- A Tibetan herder in China's northwest Qinghai Province died on Friday after setting himself on fire to protest government policies in the region, according to exile groups and Radio Free Asia. The herder, Tamdin Thar, who was thought to be in his early 60s, self-immolated in front of a police compound in Markethang, a county seat in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, according to the group Free Tibet. Radio Free Asia said security forces immediately extinguished the flames but the man died a short time later. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several travel agencies in China said Wednesday that foreigners were banned from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for central Tibet, for at least June. The agencies said they had been told of the ban recently. One agency said the ban was expected to last until September, while another said there was a chance the ban could be lifted by July. In late May, two Tibetans set themselves on fire in front of the Jokhang, the holiest temple of Tibetan Buddhism, in the center of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, to protest Chinese rule. One man died. Those self-immolations were among at least 38 that have taken place in Tibetan regions since 2009. Foreigners were barred from Tibet from late February to early April, a period that coincided with the anniversary of large protests against Chinese rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DHARAMSALA, India -- One young Tibetan monk walked down a street kicking Chinese military vehicles, then left a suicide note condemning an official ban on a religious ceremony. Another smiled often, and preferred to talk about Buddhism rather than politics. A third man, a former monk, liked herding animals with nomads. All had worn the crimson robes of Kirti Monastery, a venerable institution of learning ringed by mountains on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. All set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. Two died. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Tibetan mother of three died after setting fire to herself on Wednesday in the county of Ngaba, known in Chinese as Aba. The woman, in her mid-30s, was identified by Free Tibet, an advocacy group, as Rechok. She set fire to herself outside the Jonang Dzamthang monastery in the town of Barma, Free Tibet reported. The group added that Rechok had tended to the family's animals in the last few days and then traveled to town to kill herself. Radio Free Asia identified the woman as Rikyo, 33. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- One man died and another was seriously injured when they set themselves on fire outside Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple in the center of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, according to Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency. It was the first time that such protests against Chinese rule have occurred in the city. The self-immolations occurred on Sunday afternoon outside the Jokhang Temple during the holy month of Saga Dawa, when followers of Tibetan Buddhism celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TONGREN, China -- The young Buddhist monk, his voice hushed and nervous, was discussing the self-immolations and protests that have swept Tibetan regions of China when the insistent rap of knuckle on wood sounded behind him. Knock, knock, knock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Burn, babies, burn. The young, hard-partying and almost innocent characters in ''An Early History of Fire,'' the new play that opened on Monday night at the Acorn Theater, may seem like amateurs in the dark arts of self-immolation, especially compared with other tortured characters conceived by their creator, David Rabe. But give them a break. It's only 1962, and they're still in their early 20s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two Tibetan men on Thursday set themselves on fire in the town of Barma in the mountainous area called Ngaba by Tibetans and Aba in Chinese, according to Tibet advocacy groups. The men, Sonam and Choephak Kyap, both in their 20s, are related to each other. Free Tibet, a group based in London, said witnesses reported that the men appeared to be critically injured; a researcher for another group said reports he received indicated that they had died. The episode took place outside a monastery, but the two are laymen. Since March 2011, at least 34 people in Tibetan areas of China have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule; more than two dozen have died. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DHARAMSALA, India -- By Tuesday afternoon, posters of the man in flames were plastered along the narrow streets of this town adopted by Tibetan exiles. Monks, merchants and tourists stared. In the early evening, more than 200 people walked through the town center waving Tibetan flags and carrying banners that proclaimed Jamphel Yeshi, who died on Wednesday, a martyr. The shocking images of Mr. Yeshi's self-immolation in New Delhi on Monday have provided the Tibetan exile movement with a rallying point and an iconic expression of the anger and frustration that Tibetans suffer over Chinese rule. At least 29 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Tibetan areas of China since March 2011, and many have died. But Chinese security forces have clamped down across the plateau, so only a handful of the self-immolations have been recorded and transmitted, and only in grainy cellphone photographs or video. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DHARAMSALA, India -- By Tuesday afternoon, posters of the man in flames were plastered along the narrow streets of this town adopted by Tibetan exiles. Monks, merchants and tourists stared. In the early evening, more than 200 people walked through the town center waving Tibetan flags and carrying banners that proclaimed the critically injured man, Jamphel Yeshi, a martyr. The shocking images of Mr. Yeshi's self-immolation in New Delhi on Monday have provided the Tibetan exile movement with a rallying point and an iconic expression of the anger and frustration that Tibetans suffer over Chinese rule. At least 29 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in Tibetan areas of China since March 2011, and many have died. But Chinese security forces have clamped down across the plateau, so only a handful of the self-immolations have been recorded and transmitted, and only in grainy cellphone photographs or video. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International PHOTOS OF PROTESTER ON FIRE [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEW DELHI -- Over the past year, nearly 30 Tibetans in remote areas of western China have set fire to themselves to draw attention to what they call Chinese government repression, but the visual images of their protests have seldom been seen by outsiders. Censorship authorities in China, which regards the immolation as a form of terrorism, have made sure of it. On Monday, however, a 26-year-old Tibetan exile in New Delhi offered the world a visceral view of a self-immolation, setting himself on fire at a demonstration to protest the impending visit to India by China's president, Hu Jintao. Photographs of the man, a literal human torch in flames who sprinted for 50 yards with contorted screams before he collapsed by a tree, raced around the world by way of India's unfettered press and the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: ''Tibetan Self-Immolations as China Tightens Grip'' (front page, March 23) vividly illustrates the human dimension of this tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MAQU, China -- Like many children of Tibetan nomads, Tsering Kyi started school relatively late, at age 10, but by all accounts she made up for lost time by studying with zeal. ''Even when she was out at pasture with her parents' flock, there was always a book in her hand,'' a cousin said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- Thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of a city in China's northwest Qinghai Province on Saturday after the death of a farmer who set himself on fire at a Buddhist religious site, according to Tibetan exile groups. It was the second large protest in Qinghai this week. The gathering at the Rongwo Gonchen Monastery in Tongren, said to exceed 6,000 people, according to activist groups, was the biggest public protest in China's traditionally Tibetan areas in recent years and a sign that the spate of self-immolations and demonstrations were spreading beyond the northern wedge of Sichuan Province where most of the unrest -- and many of the previous 28 self-immolations -- has taken place since last March. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]